Directions: Read the following passage carefully. After reading, answer the questions below on the back of this sheet. Be prepared to discuss your thoughts.
In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.
Questions:
1. Do you agree or disagree with Heinz’s actions? Why?
2. Do you agree or disagree with the druggist’s actions? Why?
3. What would you have done in Heinz’s situation?
4. What would you have done in the druggist’s situation?
5. Has Heinz committed a crime?
6. Should Heinz be punished? If so, how?
Mark My Words…
Directions: In the Wordcolumn: Write down a word you are unfamiliar with.
In theI thinkcolumn: Use context clues to make a prediction of the word definition.
In theDefinitioncolumn: Use a dictionary to define the word.
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Name:
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Title of story:
Author:
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Word: paraphanalia
I think: stuff
Definition: personal belongings
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Word: perfunctory
I think: something that didn't work
Definition: to get rid of
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Word: profusely
I think: a lot, over and over
Definition: to pour out, extravagently
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Word: oberdyke
I think:
Definition:
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Word: civic
I think: perfect
Definition: a city
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Word: jovial
I think: constant
Definition: playful or in good humor
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Word: Interminably
I think: inside
Definition: lasting forever
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Word: reprimand
I think: to demand or make someone do something
Definition: a severe or formal discipline
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Word: petulantly
I think: bad
Definition: forward or impatient, ill humor
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Word: mumur
I think: stutter
Definition: mumbling
word: reluctantly
I think: to repeat
Definition: to be hesitatnt
word: Boisterous
I think:
Definition: Loud
Teacher Directions: Students will be responsible for "bookmarking" activities throughout the unit. (We will go over the other bookmarking activities as the unit progresses.) This activity "Mark My Words" is really a during-reading strategy designed to assist students in adding new words to their vocabularies. It is also a way for them to focus on the story and to use context clues to figure out meaning. Third, it can help students stay focused on the reading task before them.
Word: Students write down a word they are unfamiliar with.
I think: Students use context clues to make a prediction of the word definition.
Definition: Students use a dictionary to define the word.
2/4/07
A Crime of Passion?
Directions: Read the following passage carefully. After reading, answer the questions below on the back of this sheet. Be prepared to discuss your thoughts.
In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.
Questions:
1. Do you agree or disagree with Heinz’s actions? Why?
2. Do you agree or disagree with the druggist’s actions? Why?
3. What would you have done in Heinz’s situation?
4. What would you have done in the druggist’s situation?
5. Has Heinz committed a crime?
6. Should Heinz be punished? If so, how?
Mark My Words…
Directions: In the Word column: Write down a word you are unfamiliar with.
In the I think column: Use context clues to make a prediction of the word definition.
In the Definition column: Use a dictionary to define the word.
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Name:
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Title of story:
Author:
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Word: paraphanalia
I think: stuff
Definition: personal belongings
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Word: perfunctory
I think: something that didn't work
Definition: to get rid of
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Word: profusely
I think: a lot, over and over
Definition: to pour out, extravagently
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Word: oberdyke
I think:
Definition:
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Word: civic
I think: perfect
Definition: a city
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Word: jovial
I think: constant
Definition: playful or in good humor
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Word: Interminably
I think: inside
Definition: lasting forever
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Word: reprimand
I think: to demand or make someone do something
Definition: a severe or formal discipline
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Word: petulantly
I think: bad
Definition: forward or impatient, ill humor
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Word: mumur
I think: stutter
Definition: mumbling
word: reluctantly
I think: to repeat
Definition: to be hesitatnt
word: Boisterous
I think:
Definition: Loud
Teacher Directions: Students will be responsible for "bookmarking" activities throughout the unit. (We will go over the other bookmarking activities as the unit progresses.) This activity "Mark My Words" is really a during-reading strategy designed to assist students in adding new words to their vocabularies. It is also a way for them to focus on the story and to use context clues to figure out meaning. Third, it can help students stay focused on the reading task before them.
Word: Students write down a word they are unfamiliar with.
I think: Students use context clues to make a prediction of the word definition.
Definition: Students use a dictionary to define the word.